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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."

Thomas Huxley on Great

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  • "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

    Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

  • "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

    Albert Einstein on Great

  • "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

    William Shakespeare on Great

  • "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

    Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

  • "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

    Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Thomas Huxley

  • "In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them."

  • "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."

  • "The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins."

  • "My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

  • "It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

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